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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

U.S. Strikes Taliban Drug Facilities in Strategy Shift to Target Revenue Sources

U.S. and Afghan forces have conducted more than two-dozen joint airstrikes against opium production facilities in Afghanistan under a new campaign to target Taliban financing, the top U.S. general in the country said Monday.

Army Gen. John Nicholson said the Sunday night assaults against drug labs in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province will continue in the coming days. Nicholson said the Taliban makes at least $200 million a year through opium production.

The Pentagon aired videos at a press conference of the raids involving American B-52s and an F-22 bomber annihilating insurgent opium factories.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just taking out the ones that aren’t “cooperating” $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Anonymous said...

what took them so long?

Anonymous said...

The war on drugs is ridiculous. This has something else behind it. They went from barely any opium production before we went to war in Iraq to now producing massive amounts of opium. Where is the US moving its farms now?